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Local professors teamed up with a fourth-grade teacher to show students the similarities and differences between sedimentary rock layers and snow banks. Students observed and drew snow banks and explored the effects of…
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Scope on Safety: Digging up the dirt on soil safety
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Should middle school science teachers be concerned about students bringing in unknown sources of soil to work on in class as the activity suggests? The science is well intended, but is it safe? What are some possible…
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Since 2002, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado has been working to provide learning tools for students and teachers. The project has developed over 85 interactive simulations—or sims—…
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Sharpening Your Senses
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Students’ fascination with the world around them can inspire numerous investigations about the five senses. This month's Teaching Through Trade Books column focuses on two books about the senses: My Five Senses and…
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Science Sampler: Why we have seasons and other common misconceptions
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The video, A Private Universe, engages students in the ideas regarding alternative conceptions. This video is effective in capturing preservice teachers’ attention and altering their own beliefs regarding alternative…
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The Dimensions of the Solar System
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A few new wrinkles have been added to the popular activity of building a scale model of the solar system. Students can learn about maps and scaling using easily accessible online resources that include satellite images…
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The implementation of a new first-semester general chemistry laboratory curriculum provided an opportunity to answer the following question: How does the degree of inquiry-based laboratory instruction impact student…
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Science Sampler: Engineering-A-Future for tomorrow's young women
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Engineering-A-Future (EAF) is an outreach program for middle school age girls. Through a collaborative effort of the Colleges of Engineering and Education at Tennessee Tech University (TTU), the participants experience…
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Can you imagine yourself in the outback or on a tropical island, using your scientific smarts to outwit all the others? Why not challenge students to use what you've taught them in a setting that tests their skills of…
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Guest Editorial: The Changing Landscape of Assessment
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An opinion piece about inquiry assessment.
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Nontraditional laboratories can provide primary pathways by which students comprehend and apply modern astronomy. To teach a nontraditional astronomy lab, we must give students opportunities to critically contemplate…
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Science Sampler: A project-based environmental unit for teaching content through inquiry
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Recent science education reform efforts for adolescents have attempted to engage students in science by using project-based instruction (Rivet and Krajcik 2008). The features of project-based learning (PBL) are…
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The Green Room: The Green Chemistry Laboratory
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When it comes to making chemistry labs greener, there are two overarching goals: to reduce the consumption of energy and resources and reduce the production of hazardous and nonhazardous waste. Clearly, these two goals…
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Projects based in the community give students the opportunity to engage in investigation as scientists and apply their work to make a difference at home. In the community project described in this article, students…
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Astrobiology refers to the “origin, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe.” Astrobiologists study extreme environments on Earth and characterize the life forms that occupy them. These environments provide…
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